Corset advertising-form.



PATENTED DEC. 18, 1904.

D. KOPS.

CORSET ADVERTISING FORM.

APPLIGATION l-ILED FEB. 29. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Patented December 13, 190%.

A-TENT tripe.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET ADVERTiSlNG FURlW.

@PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,4t23, dated December 13, 190%. Application filed February 29, 190 Serial No. 195724. (No model.)

To (1 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough n cck and the upper edge of a corset on display is provided with an opening, preferably rectangular. In this in suitable bearings is mounted a revoluble frame with swinging bars and adjustable cards for the advertising matter, which revoluble device is actuated by a lever and ratchet-and-pawl structure operated by a reciprocating bar. The swinging bars and adjustable cards carried thereby are turned over by a cam device, so that the opposite sides of adjacent cards lie in substantially the same plane, said plane being inclined and substantially agreeing with the inclined plane of the chest of the corset-form and nominally continuing the continuity thereof. The display-cards rise toward the back or center of the form and turn over forward, where they are temporarily supported as progressively moved and from which they are progressively drawn away with the movement ofthe revoluble device.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of a corsetform according to my invention. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section through the opening in the chest portion of the corset-form and through the revoluble device. Fig. 4: is an end elevation of the revoluble device and section of the shaft. Fig. 5 is an elevation at one end of the revoluble device and the adjacent portion of the corset-form. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the inner surface of the portion of the corset-form shown in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is an elevation and partial section representing a pawl structure for preventing back movement.

The corset-form a and the supporting-base Z) are of ordinary and well-kn own structure, a" representing the inclined chest portion of the corset-form, in which is made an opening, preferably retangular, as shown in Fig. 1. This rectangular opening is indicated at c, and the same starts at its upper edge at the line of the neck of the form. and at its lower edge comes at a point which will be above the upper edge of a corset displayed on the form. In the opposite faces of the corset-form, at the opening 0, there are bearings 2 3 for a horizontally-disposed shaft 4. Upon this shaft are end disks 5, securely fastened in place, the left-hand disk 5 having line teeth or serrations and the right-l'land disk 5 larger teeth spaced apart at predetermined points.

The end disks 5 are perforated at the points where the teeth come on the right-hand disk 5, and bars 6 pass through these perforations across from disk to disk, the left-haml end of the bars 6 outside of the disk 5 being bent at 8. Upon these bars, between the end disks 5, there are clips 7, which are preferably of bent form or strips of metal brought around the bars 6 and soldered thereto with their free ends slightly separated. The display or advertising cards (Z are inserted in the clips 7 so that their edges come substantially against and along the bars 6. These cards (Z are to be printed advantageously on opposite sides with any advertising or illustrative matter to be displayed with the form and the corset,

A bent or bell-crank lover a is pivotally mounted on the shaft 4, advantageously at the right-hand side, Fig. 1, of the revoluble device and between the end disk 5 and the bearing 3. Upon one end of this lever e a pawl e is pivotally mounted and provided with a spring, the function of which is to press the point of the pawl into contact and engage-- ment with the teeth of the right-hand disk 5. The other end of the lever c is pivotally connected to the reciprocating bar f of the prime mover. At the other end of the revoluble device, adjacent to the bearing 9. and in the side of the form carrying said bearing, is a camarm 9, advantageously formed of a bent wire and adjustably held by its screws 9 in place. Fig. 6 shows this cam-arm g adjustably held to the face of the corset advertising-form, and in Fig. 4L the outturned end 9 of this camarm is shown in section as directly in the path of the bent ends of the bars 6, and in the operation of the device the shaft L and the end disks 5, with the bars 6 and the series of cards d, are turned in the bearings 2 3 by the reciprocating movement of the bar f and the swinging movement of the lever e, causing the pawl e to take a tooth at a time and to move the revoluble device the extent of a tooth at a time. With this movement the bent ends of the bars 6 strike the outturued end g of the cam-arm, causing the bar' 6 to be given a half-rotation, and consequently with it the card carried thereby, so that the card is turned from a position above the plane of the shaft 4 to an almost corresponding position or inclination, mainly below said plane and at the side of the shaft L. \Vith this movement the left-hand disk 5 with its fine teeth underruns the pawl 7L, and at the extreme movement the pawl it engages a tooth, preventing any back movement or backlash of the parts, which would be liable to shake or' disturb the revoluble device and the cards carried thereby.

10 represents a bracket-support secured to the inner face of the form at the lower portion of the rectangular opening, and upon this several cards of the series rest as they are turned over, the lowermost cards being progressively drawn away with the movement of the revoluble device. From Figs. 3 and 4: it will be apparent that the uppermost card before it is turned over is at an inclination which agrees substantially with the chest of the corset-form and that each card after being turned over is also at an inclination which substantially agrees or is parallel with the inclination of the chest of the corset-form, with the other side of the card visible. Thus opposite sides of two adjacent cards are not only at substantially the same inclination and in planes parallel with the chest of the corset-forms, but both surfaces may be simultaneously viewed to observe the advertising or illustrative matter displayed thereon.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with a body having an inclined opening and a series of advertising or display cards visible at said opening, of a revoluble support for the said series of cards, means for pivotally connecting the cards to the revoluble device, a support for a portion -of said cards as they turn progressively, and

IIIGZLDSfOI turning over said cards progressively on their pivotal support.

2. The combination with a body having an inclined opening and a series of advertising or display cards visible at said opening, of a revoluble support for the said series of cards, means for pivotally connecting the cards to the revoluble support, a support for a portion of said cards as they turn progressively, and means including a part fixed to the first aforesaid means, and a part adjustable on the body, employed together for turning over said cards progressively on the means employed for their pivotal support.

3. The combination with a body having an inclined opening, and a series of advertising or display cards visible at said opening, of a revoluble support for said series of cards, pivot-bars mounted in the said revoluble support and means connected therewith for engaging the cards, said pivot-bars having one end bent at a right angle, asupport for a portion of said cards as they are turned progressively, and an adjustable cam-arm having an outturued end for turning over the cards progressively on their pivot-bars.

The combination with a body having an inclined opening and a series of advertising or display cards visible at said opening, of a revoluble support for saidseries of cards, pivotbars mounted on the said revoluble support, means connected with said pivot-bars for engaging and holding the cards, said pivot-bars having one end bent at a right angle, a support independent of the revoluble support for a portion of said cards as they are turned progressively, and a cam-arm formed as a bent wire secured to the body by screws and adjustable lengthwise and having an outturned end for engaging the bent ends of the pivotbars and turning over said cards progressively.

Signed by me this 24th day of February,

DANIEL KOPS.

W'itnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

